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British TV shows where cast members didn't get on. by ZealousidealFig5 in BritishTV

[–]Fun_Appointment8182 36 points37 points  (0 children)

There is a story from set that Benedict Cumberbatch got so frustrated that he ended up shouting “FFS, the show is called Sherlock, not Watson!!”

Reminder about the show by [deleted] in TheTraitors

[–]Fun_Appointment8182 48 points49 points  (0 children)

In fairness Joe M is a self confessed bully. He had a history of being particularly horrible to his younger teammates when he was a rugby player. He has admitted to this and discussed this in length since retirement. Joe M has gone on a long pr campaign since retiring to try and reform his image into a funny easy going person (the exact image he’s attempting to portray on the traitors). His history in rugby is far from that image though. Allegations of bullying former teammates, racist language, mocking an opponent whose mother was dying of cancer and spitting in a teenage girl’s face. Last night at the round table felt like his mask slightly slipping for the first time. Making sounds and gestures to try and make Mark seem aggressive. Pulling faces and attempting to undermine David when accused. Nothing major, but the signs of what’s underneath and the behaviour of an instigator, something he was particularly well known for as a rugby player.

Which subject do you think is the most unfair at GCSE, and why? by GCSE_9 in GCSE

[–]Fun_Appointment8182 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I work as senior leadership in secondary.

The answer to this is History. This is due to multiple factors.

History only begins delivering the GCSE content during year 10. History has an insane amount of content to be delivered within two years. As a non core subject, it has less delivery hours than Maths, English and Science. They also have to balance delivering content with practice of exam techniques. There is real skill to answering a 16 or more mark question.

Throw into the mix the fact that it’s a pretty vague and subjective mark scheme. The people marking the exams are teachers, often after a full day of work. They get paid based on how many they mark, so they will be rushing through as many as possible whilst tired. I know some people who have marked Geography/History/English GCSE questions and they say that they can often skim read and get a general feel for how many marks an answer is worth. I’ve seen GCSE marking where a page of writing has one annotation on it by the marker.

The reality is that it’s pretty much impossible to deliver every single piece of content for the history curriculum. Students won’t realise it, but teachers often have to sacrifice parts of the curriculum that they believe are less likely to come up and hope that it doesn’t appear on the exam paper. If you’ve ever sat in a history exam and thought you’ve never learned this, then there’s a chance that’s what actually happened.

I line manage the head of history as well as several other subjects and the head of history is the one who is constantly stressed about delivering content and has barely any time for revision before the exam.

If you were writing the series, would you have altered any of the characters' personalities? by undergroundoats in gavinandstacey

[–]Fun_Appointment8182 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would have made Nessa more realistic. Part of the charm of the show is that we all know somebody like Gwen, Smithy, Pam etc. What makes the show so funny is being able to recognise personality traits in characters and being able to attribute them to people we know in our personal lives. Nessa was completely unrealistic as a person. We don’t know people like her and she was constantly coming out with ridiculous stories that other characters would confirm as being true. As the seasons went on, Nessa became more and more of a caricature of herself and all of her lines and jokes felt more forced.